of elmira



P. A. LA FRANCE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'IO HIMSELF AND OSCAR B. GRAY, OF NEW YORK CITY'.

IMPROVE!) WASH-POUNDEB.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, P. A. LA FRANCE, of Elmira, Oheinung county, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in -Wash-Founders, being an improved rubber bottom or pad for a washpounder; and I dovhereby.declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.

Figure l is perspective view of the pad attached to the pounder, with the elevated radii or ribs a a a, and the vent or orice b,

Figure 2 shows the rubber pad disconnected om the pounder, it being a cross-section.

Figure 3 is a plan of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a more effective means to cleanse clothing and fabrics without injury, which is the only objection ever urged against the ordinary wooden pounder, owing to its hard, sharp, and unyielding edges coming in contact with frail and delicate fabrics, and the tearing oi' and breaking of buttons, 85o.

' purposes described.

.form of the pad. I provide one. or more holes, as shown atc, for the upward passage of Water, which escapes in suitable openings, as at c c c.

Having thus described my invention,

What I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A rubber shield or pad-attachment to a wash-pounder, in general form and device substantially as and for the P. A. LA FRANCE. Witnesses:

CHARLES D. INGERsoLL,

JOHN PINGRY. 

